Gordon,
The data will stay in the existing storage pool until it is moved
manually...
BTW: Rebinding applies to data retention (ie: number of versions and days
to keep), and actually refers to files being re-attached to a new
(different) management class.
So, changing the details of a
wasn't there a redbook out there called: Running TSM Behind A Firewall or
something like that?. I can't seem to find it on the redbook site. Can
anyone point me in the right direction?. thanks in advance..
Justin - I think you mean the Quick Start manual, topic Connecting with IBM
Tivoli
My company is moving to use Windows server 2003 Active directory.
Is there a TDP for backing up serves using this?
What is the process for backing up a server using Active directory on a Win 2003
server?
William Fitzgerald
Software Programmer
Munson Medical Center
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Make sure that your OFFSITE pool is NOT collocated.
miles
--
Miles Purdy
System Manager
Information Systems Team (IST),
Farm Income Programs Directorate (FIPD),
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
operating system AIX 4.3.3
TSM server software level 5.1.65
IBM 3494 Tape Library with 4 3590B upgrading to 6 3590E
Can I upgrade to TSM Server 5.2.X without upgrading to AIX 5.X?
Is TSM Serve 5.2 a 32 or 64 bit application?
William Fitzgerald
Software Programmer
Munson Medical Center
[EMAIL
Hi Everyone,
I'm looking for a way to determine what management classes our
nodes/filespaces use.
I thought this would be easy . . . . .it probably is, but I seem to be
making it hard.
I couldn't find a normal TSM query to provide this data, so I tried a sql
query . . . .
select distinct
Mine too -- but I'm not the one doing the cost justification.
As long as the ones doing the cost justification have been made aware
that the chances of actually being able to fully recover without a
system solution like TSM are fairly slim, then its their gamble. Just
keep the documentation of
Hello everyone!
I just wanted to make sure that my syntax is correct. What I want to do is
archive /p01 filespaces with the management class of ORA0010. Is this
schedule correct? Thanks! I've never run an archive schedule with a
particular management class before. Thank you in advance.
Believe me, I would if I could. It's a management decision. They want our
core critical servers restored as quickly as possible so they've mandated
that the offsite pool is collocated. (It's frighteningly easy for a server
to be included on the Critical list.) The problem remains however, WHY am
Hi,
What type of collocation are you using. Filespace or node?
Regard,
Karel
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Van: Alan Davenport [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Verzonden: dinsdag 14 oktober 2003 14:38
Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Onderwerp: Re: Too many DRM tapes leaving 3949 library daily.
Believe
Collocated by node. (I don't even want to THINK how by filespace would be!)
-Original Message-
From: Karel Bos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 8:47 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Too many DRM tapes leaving 3949 library daily.
Hi,
What type of
How much data are you backing up per node? What size tapes are you
writing to?
I just asked this question less than a week ago.
The answer is a resounding ***NO***.
ITSM 5.2 AIX SERVER requires AIX 5.x.
Bill Fitzgerald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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10/14/2003 07:48 AM
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To:
Hi *SM-ers!
In the TSM client manual for Windows 5.2 I found the following line:
Your Windows Server 2003 client must be connected to a Tivoli Storage
Manager Version 5.2.0 or higher server. (page 86)
Does this mean that Windows 2003 system state recovery doesn't work when you
are connected to a
Doing Query Content on the questioned tapes may illuminate the
reason for so many being ejected.
Richard Sims, BU
Interestingly enough, I went to the technical documentation on the TSM website and
looked at the installation information, and it says that it can be run on 4.3.3.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/IBMStorageManagerforAIX5.2.html
in the quick start document under system requirements.
That seems to be the issue..incomplete/incorrect documentation.
Here is the message I posted and the response I received:
**
This sentence means that it will NOT INSTALL. (it won't be
Hi Erik!
If I´ll remember right you can backup files with TSM Client level 5.1.6 to any TSM
server level.
But you can not backing up System state.
To backup system state on a Windows 2003 server you need to use Client level 5.2 and
TSM Server level 5.2
If you use a older version of TSM Server.
Eric,
Which version of TSM Client are you using on the Win 2003 box?
Met vriendelijke groet, with kind regards,
Richard van Denzel
Consultant
IBM CATE, TSM Certified Consultant
Solution Professional Services B.V.
thank you for the time and most helpful information.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/14/03 09:24AM
That seems to be the issue..incomplete/incorrect documentation.
Here is the message I posted and the response I received:
Interestingly enough, I went to the technical documentation on the TSM
website and looked at the installation information, and it says that it
can be run on 4.3.3.
Manuals are big, static things which see punctuated evolution rather
than frequent changes. Readme files, bulletins, and web
reason being AIX 4.3.3 will be going out of support at the end of the
year.it's in the server readme anyway, first paragraph.
so you'll need AIX 5.1 or later, 32 or 64 bit.
Cordiali saluti
Gianluca Mariani
Tivoli TSM Global Response Team, Roma
Via Sciangai 53, Roma
phones : +39(0)659664598
It's necessary to upgrade to AIX 5.1. Have a look at the installation README:
*
* $$1 AIX OS level correction to Quickstart manual *
3590H tapes which hold 60GB uncompressed. I've seen as much as 297GB fit on
a tape using the tape drive's compression and compressible data (SQL
databases). I'm backing up much less that that per night per server. The
largest critical server is only 31GB on average. NONE of them should take up
1. Will that combination work?
2. Is that a supported combination? Or is only TSM 5.2 server on AIX 5.2
supported?
The docs I've seen to date hasn't directly addressed TSM 5.1 server on AIX
5.2 64 bit, and I don't have a spare 64-bit 5.2 machine to test with at the
moment. (Got plenty of
64-bit TSM 5.1 is available. You can download it at the usual place.
Met vriendelijke groet, with kind regards,
Richard van Denzel
Consultant
IBM CATE, TSM Certified Consultant
Solution Professional Services B.V.
Oops,
In addition, yes it will work (got one running as testsystem).
Met vriendelijke groet, with kind regards,
Richard van Denzel
Consultant
IBM CATE, TSM Certified Consultant
Solution Professional Services B.V.
We are currently running a 5.1.7.2 server under OS/390 and are looking
into the possibility of migrating to a mainframe Linux server. The Linux
server would share our existing 3494 tape library with the surviving
OS/390 workload. As TSM workload shifted from OS/390 to Linux we would
need to shift
Alan,
As Richard Sims suggested, Q Content can help you figure out what is
going on.
To get a better handle on what's actually getting sent off-site in this
collocated stgpool, take the list of volsers that are being sent to the
vault from today. Do this before reclamation gets started on this
Is there any chance that you are forcing the access modes of copy
storage pool volumes to 'offsite' more than once per day, using
'move drmedia', 'update volume', or a combination of the two? If
that was happening each batch of access mode changes would force
subsequent output to copy storage
Joni,
If it is your intent to archive /p01 and all of its files and
subdirectories, then you need to make a couple of modifications:
1) Append a slash to the end of the object being archived:
object=/p01/
This tells TSM to archive not only /p01 itself, but all of its files and
If you send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject of
52_Install_Tips, the following information is part of the email:
TSM 5.1 Not Supported on AIX 5.2
Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) 5.1 is not compatible with AIX 5.2 and will
cause a system crash if installed. TSM 5.1 is shipped in error
Are you using DIRMC?
Maybe the directories are using a different mgmtclass (data one place
directories another)?
query content xx on one or two of the smaller tapes
show version using a smaller node
As part of the migration process, I moved groups of tapes into a
separate TMS subpool. When the 3494 tried to use one of those tapes as
scratch, they were marked as in error in the OAM data base and the 3494
no longer tried to use them for MVS. Then when I had a block cleared, I
moved them to
AIX 4.3.3 TSM 5.1.7.3 Reclaim fails after running for several days with
minimal tapes reclaimed. Scratch tapes available, not a problem. Any
ideas?
Kenny Barnes
GMAC Insurance
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336-770-8280
Hi,
And the error was? Running for serveral days? Try starting reclaimation
with 99 and work your way down.
Regard,
Karel
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Van: Barnes, Kenny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Verzonden: dinsdag 14 oktober 2003 16:40
Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Onderwerp: Reclaim failing
Ran it at 70
ANR0986I Process 74 for SPACE RECLAMATION running in the
BACKGROUND processed 2072787 items for a total of
541,844,252,635 bytes with a completion state of
FAILURE
at 17:04:16.
-Original Message-
From:
Hi Kenny,
There should have been another error before this one.
That is the one you need to look at.
Mark
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From: Barnes, Kenny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 10:46 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Reclaim failing on off-site copy pool
Set your reclaim level much higher, like 95 or 90. Once that completes,
do it again, 5% lower and let that complete. Work your way down to the
desired level.
Offsite reclaim mounts ONSITE tapes a minimum number of times. So
often most of the offsite tapes are not actually emptied until the
Are any of the onsite tapes required for the reclamation in an unavailable
state or not in your library? Check the server activity log for right before
the reclamation fails for any messages. Or just Q VOL ACC=UNAVAIL to see if
there are any tapes marked unavailable for some reason. It could also
I am thinking that this is what has happened. I am digging for facts.
We did run reclaim on other tape pools as well during this time. I
think reclaim builds its list before it actually processes, if this is
the case the data may have been moved before it actually gets to it?
Thanks,
I have a client that wants to install DiskXtender on a Windows2000 server.
Anyone have experience doing/running this? Pitfalls..things to look out
for???
Bill Boyer
Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield. - ??
Hi Richard!
We are currently testing the 5.1.6 client code.
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
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From: Richard van Denzel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 15:29
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Windows 2003 backup to 5.1.7
At 10:45 AM 10/14/2003 -0400, you wrote:
Ran it at 70
-
Karel's suggestion is good - start with a higher number. Your offsite
volumes' data is most likely spread across many onsite volumes. This can
cause offsite reclamation to take a very long
Hello!
My configuration is:
p6H0 with AIX 4.3.3 ML 9
TSM 5.1.6.1
HBA 6228
bridge FC-SCSI 3250
drives HP-Ultrium1
From time to time randomly I get error messages in errpt ADSM_DD_LOG2.
From the sense data I can see that the problem is with a medium. In the
TSM actlog there are messages I/O
All,
Have a customer looking at subfile backups for two webservers which are
hosted at a remote hosting facility and connected via a WAN.
We are looking at using subfile backups to enable these servers to
participate within the TSM hierarchy, but I want to get a feel of
real-world-experiences
TSM 5.1.7.1 on AIX 4.3.3 ML10, Fiber Channel HBA, IBM LTO1
We recently upgraded from 4.2.1.7 to 5.1.7.1. I started seeing the
unavailable and read-only tapes soon after that. I haven't done
anything else to determine the issues. I thought it might be due to dirty
tape drives (recently sent an
we are having similar problems.
Config is Win2K w/ TSM4.2.3.1 with IBM3583 and 6-LTO drives, SCSI direct
attached.
We get the same issues with all media mfg.'s we have used (IBM, HP, Imation,
Maxell).
I have a few Veritas BackupEXEC machines that use LTO. I have had a couple
of tapes
where BUE
I tested it on couple of file servers, it worked like a breeze,
but at the last I was definitely limited by it´s limits
(grr, my wording in not worth to loose a word about)
namely subfile cache area - which is 1 GB as far as I can remember,
anyway, far too small to keep all delta files dictated
Hello all,
I am currently on AIX 4.3.3, TSM 5.1.6.3. The system is capable of 64bit but
is currently running 32. I am looking for a preferred upgrade path to AIX
5.2 and TSM 5.2.x.x. Is there a document that discusses an upgrade order and
procedure? I'd also like to know if the migrate install to
Interesting to note about the transfer of the full file after the 32
subfile backups - does this definitely happen?
You mention that 1GB was used as the subfile cache area...how big was the
amount of space available on the server?
I believe that the TSM client does not perform housekeeping on
Yes, it did indeed. I found non-critical data on the critical pool offsite
tapes. It turns out it was DIRECTORY data. When I moved to the library we
also moved to a new Unix (aix-rs/6000) TSM server from an OS390 box. On
recommendation from an IBM consultant I did NOT create a directory
management
I'm going to have to do the same thing here soon, but I've been thinking
about exporting/importing or restoring the database to a fresh install of
5.2 as opposed to a migrate install. (I am going to have to pull my two
6M1s off of an SP complex I don't want to have to deal with PSSP and the
FYIYes I am running DiskXtenderon a Windows powered (w2k) Nas 300G with 11
million files and I am not Pleased
at all with the response times when we have to fetch files from tape. Using
Tivoli Storage Manger ion the back end,
have been running it for about 2 years.
Justin Case
Duke University
919
I tried it a couple of years ago and it was terrible. What version of
Diskextender are you running? What os and version of TSM are you running?
Thanks
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From: Justin Case [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 12:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
It will be the lastest DiskXtender2000 product and host will be Windows2000
server, TSM Client 5.1.6 and TSM server 5.1.7.2 on AIX 5.2 64-bit (p630
processor) connected SCSI to IBM3584 LTO1 with 3-drives.
Bill
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Almost the same environment that we have currently and the biggest issues
are that when you need to fetch file back to disk
it will use all of the tape drives that are available.
Another issue is that we were on a daily conference call for out system
with DiskXtender2000 running
and when
Unless there was a change recently, TSM does not send a full after 32
subfile backups.
See http://msgs.adsm.org/cgi-bin/get/adsm0208/898.html for when a new base
file is sent.
Tim Rushforth
City of Winnipeg
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From: Rowan O'Donoghue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
1 GB is an TSM limit,
there was substantially more free space on those servers, over 5 GB.
Housekeeping: I strongly believe you should not do housekeeping there - this
must be the place wher tsm client saves deltas from previous backups
so that it can compute delta to most current file version
Is there still an agent or TDP for Lotus Notes version 4.x
I am aware of the TDP for Domino, but what about Notes user's what do they use for TSM
backups?
Thanks
John Stephens
www.Storserver.com
I have just had a call escalated to level 2 and was wondering if anybody
else is having a problem and may not know it. I was told I was the first to
report it.
We have recently upgraded to TSM 5.1.7.2 and noticed there is a higher
amount of CPU being consumed by the DSMSERV process. We were
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rowan O'Donoghue
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says:
All,
Have a customer looking at subfile backups for two webservers which are
hosted at a remote hosting facility and connected via a WAN.
What have been your main issues? (apart from the obvious being expanded
TSM processing
We too run this on a Win2000 server and have noticed slow fetch times. Just
after implementing we had to install 2 new drives in our 3584Lib to handle
the new throughput. We had to turn off Journaling on servers with
filespaces monitored by OTG; the inspected amounts were through the roof and
Eric,
you need both the v5.2 client and v5.2 server if you want to exploit the
new Automated System Recovery feature of Windows Server 2003.
If v5.1.6 (or later) client and/or v5.1.x server are used you can only
have System State/System Object backups and restores.
Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant
Both irrelevant and incorrect.
The question was about the server, not the client. In IBM Announcement
Letter ZP02-0494 (EMEA, find US/Canada equivalent) for ITSM v5.1.5 you can
find:
Additional operating system support
...
AIX 5.2 support for the Tivoli Storage Manager server, LAN and LAN-free
Misleading!
It can also be done using v5.1.6 (or later) client and/or v5.1.x server.
See my previous reply on the other thread.
Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant
Christian Svensson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Have in mind that LTO is not so good for *any* HSM due to long mount time.
Usually IBM 359x/STK 9x40 will provide you much faster recall.
Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant
Bill Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I think that makes sense Deon, I'll change the management class settings and then move
the files manually to the correct storage pool.
Thanks for the info.
Gordon
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Replication of the database to the server and backup of the server
replica.
Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant
John Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Salak Juraj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, 14 October 2003 11:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: AW: Subfile backups (or Adaptive Copy)
I tested it on couple of file servers, it worked like a breeze,
but at the last I was definitely limited
Hello all,
I have installed TSM server (and client) 5.1 on win2k pro, service pack 4 + all
updates.
This machine has a new Seagate tapestor travan 20 drive (which I've tested with the
seagate
software to do a backup and it works fine)
After install of TSM server completes and I run the
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